Stamp Out Hunger this Saturday

Published 8:37 am, Tuesday, May 5, 2015

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FILE - John Crooks, left, and Cindy Rice, with the West Texas Food Bank, sort through boxes of non-perishable items collected during the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, May 14 at the U.S. Post Office on Veterans Airpark Lane. Cindeka Nealy/Reporter-Telegram less

FILE - John Crooks, left, and Cindy Rice, with the West Texas Food Bank, sort through boxes of non-perishable items collected during the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, May 14 at the U.S. Post Office on Veterans ... more

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The 22nd annual Stamp Out Hunger event is happening this Saturday in the Permian Basin. National Association of Letter Carriers and Feeding America team up each year to deliver food donations to food banks and pantries across the nation. Letter carriers collect the food donations that are left near mailboxes every year on the second Saturday in May.

Donations in the Permian Basin go to the West Texas Food Bank. Stamp Out Hunger is the largest single-day food drive in the country, according to a press release from West Texas Food Bank

“Stamp Out Hunger is like no other food drive. It allows every community across the country to collectively come together on one day to do their part to fight hunger,” Libby Campbell, executive director of WTFB, said in the release. “We are so grateful to community members who donate non-perishable items and for the letter carriers who take the time to collect each bag to help fight hunger in West Texas.”

According to a recent study by Feeding America, WTFB’s 19 counties are home to more than 55,000 people struggling with hunger. More than 27,000 of them are children.

Stamp Out Hunger is held in communities in all 50 states. In 2014 the drive brought in more than 70 million pounds of food. In the Permian Basin, letter carriers and WTFB have delivered more than 557,900 pounds of food in the last seven years.

Volunteers are needed from 2-4 p.m. or 4-6 p.m. Saturday at post offices in Odessa and Midland and at the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa. Call 580-6333.